Final Paper

When I first started this class I didn’t know what to expect. I had taken eng 101 before and I like that and I thought this would be the same. In certain aspects it was like that but in as a whole it was excellent. I loved the supernatural theme because it makes you be creative and test yourself in areas which you might have never done. I put effort in to the blog and it looks cool and it’s also very educating and it's helped me to learn a lot. The first blog series was about something which I like this show called heroes. The second one was one of my favorites of the whole series. I'm a pink Floyd fan and to get to write about them was awesome. I felt I could have done more in it especially with identifying symbols and archetypes but I went the other way and just chose to explain what the songs meaning is which I think I did a good job. On blog 2.1 goblin markets was a little hard cause the poem was so long yet its meaning was so simple and the symbols and archetypes were huge. I did some of them but in general this blog helped me learn symbols and archetypes which I hadn’t encountered before. 3.1-3.2 was interesting and yet very educating and i love the picture of blooded hands which I chose for that blog entry. I already knew this story so nothing major was learned there. Coralline was a very interesting book and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It might have been a book for children but to me that book can be read by any age. i saw a lot of resemblances with spirited away in this book like the heroes quest and the archetypes were sort of similar. Here I could compare the cat with the dragon boy from spirited away and lots of other characters vice versa. This blog put me to think thoroughly and i enjoyed the book very much.
Finally to our project. We were so undecided what to do on this and in the last week we came with the idea to do a trailer which I think considering the time restraint went pretty well and as a group we were happy with it. There was mixed messages in it from survival sacrifice and extinguishing the evil that threatens us.

One of my favorites’ written pieces from my classmates during this semester was Luis lost boys which was one of my project partners. The coralline essay that he wrote was really good from top to bottom. it start simply explaining the book and the types of archetype and then goes on further to explain how the characters evolve in the story and he ends it by giving examples of what qualities to have or archetype kind to have for this book to apply to your archetype.

Still Alive

an educational message from miri

updates on our progress

last week we were scouting the area for filming and brainstorming on how to bring the project to life through to the screen. the other fun stuff we did was test the guns we had and did a couple of funny videos which i'll post later. today is the big day, we are shooting the whole thing today so there is gone be a lot of make up done and it should be fun. we'll keep you all posted on other stuff.

area scouting for filming for our project

on Saturday we were in the Bronx looking at some areas to film our project and we decided to do it in this park near the east river were the Manhattan was also viewable. we discussed different scenarios on how to do our zombie project. i had this idea were we film a day in the life of a zombie. many things popped in my head which were all funny and yet meaningful but we had other ideas as well  like zombie hunting etc. we got all the equipment and the make up so today we should be filming it and then for the rest of the time we gone do editing and special effects. lost boys

5.1 posted

Coraline


My primary archetype is the innocent although i do see myself as a wanderer/warrior too sometimes. The Innocent archetype, me is a person who accepts things as they are who seeks unconditional love and acceptance. That would be me on a good day. On the other hand when my shadow takes over I become reckless and power seeking and this rage that takes over me makes me a completely different person a wild version who’s not thinking things through but instead just goes around being the opposite. I like Innocent at times but at times i wish i could just be a warrior which i have come to accept as I've grown up. The wanderers part that's just my curiosity of things and it got me more trouble than results so far in life.

In the first chapter of Coraline there are many symbols and scenes where both my archetypes as Innocent and wanderer appear. My everyday to day activities make me Innocent as i go about life where as my other side is like in chapter two were Coraline is warned by the old man’s mice not to go to the door and also by the two ladies not to wear green but if i was in her shoes i would do exactly what she did and do those things. I don't know maybe for me is a need to rebel or just to have something exciting in her explorers life for Coraline. I would classify danger as an adventure as she does at the beginning of the book. In chapter four there is a line which particularly applies to me when the cat is telling Coraline is good that you brought protection with you(stone).

Here the archetype is a mentors one and i find myself in these situations lots of time at work or on everyday life situations wary and willing to give advice when i can. as i moved on reading the book i found familiar grounds on chapter 7 that could relate to me. Coraline had started her hero’s quest and was transforming into a warrior in order to save her parents and the children. In my case I find that I'm always trying to help others when they ask for help no matter how impossible it might be. The one thing i never say no i always say yes to people when the ask me for favours. This personally is a bad quality to have if you cant keep your promises. caroline was in the same mess when she realised how much she had in her hand. She had to save her parents the kids the cat and importantly herself. although i never saw her as being the selfish kind all through out the book. As we move on in chapter nine Coraline comes to the mother telling her that she found two of the souls with a certain believe that she can do this to prove the ones who don't believe her wrong which is exactly my type sometimes because when you promise so much to so many you’ll always leave some unhappy for not fulfilling your promises to them. Coraline now had to save five souls not including the cat so i can relate to that scene personally.

Needed help from others when you think all is lost is another similarity which i can see when Coraline loses the mouse who has the soul and thinks she has failed but the cat one of her helpers/mentor assists her and hope is back in her side that she can do this. this is all too familiar in me as when you help people they will pay you back when you never expect it in the hardest times I've found out many times. I think this has to do with me being the innocent archetype who’s always approachable and willing to listen and help other and for Coraline too as she makes friend along her journey that help her succeed.

The part where she throughs the cat to the other mothers eyes is something i couldn't relate to. Maybe its my innocent archetype where i cant put people at risk for my well being or something else but unless i was certain of the outcome i don't know if i could do that.Overall i can relate with the ending of the book too as far as family life goes. when i was young i was always wanting things which i didn't need or weren't good for me and i didn't like the fact that my parents would say no to me unless they thought it was right for me like in the beginning of the book. As i grew up i began to appreciate more my upbringing and the way in which was raised as it helped me become a better person since i was living by myself since i was sixteen. It’s funny cause when your family is there all the time you don't appreciate them and when there is a risk that you might not see them for a while you’ll change and see reason to their methods and appreciate more. Personally knowing my archetype was helpful to identify myself through out the book but i believe there are so many different archetypes in us were we can identify with a lot of stuff in this book as i explained above. the positive thing is that the book puts things into perspective for you and shows you the different scenarios were you archetype is applied. I myself saw these traits of being a warrior in Coraline, in chapter six when she’s looking for clothes to put on and finds nothing but costume’s in her cupboard. How she fought to me was a sign that she has a warrior archetype in her. In chapter seven coralline warrior archetypes, really starts to come out when she makes a deal with other mother that if she could find her parents she has to let them all go but if she does not, she is forced to stay with other mother forever. Now Coraline is willing to be courageous enough to fight for what she wants as well be willing to be ready to sacrifice herself for her parents.The journey does not end there. After defeating the other mother, Coraline has to be wary of keeping other mother severed hand as well as the key away from the door to the other world by dropping it down a well.

You don't necessary need to know your archetype to understand the story because the archetype that you are is you and how you app lie yourself in different situations when they arise. as far as others understanding my story from my point of view is a good thing because people can see how i app lie myself to the story and then they can do the same for themselves. There is no single person that is identical and i don't believe that someone fells the same way about the book in all the scenarios above like i do. we all have different mind, souls and archetypes that make us who we are.




chapters 1,2,4,7,9,11,12
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/mamchur/archetypeinnocent.html

Mountain Devil Prank Fails Horribly

Hey You songs for project

Muse - Resistance videos considering for project

3.3 project was

Our idea as a group is to do a short movie with a song that fits to the course theme where we try to bring out our archetypes in one person and the transformation from innocent to wonderer and then to warrior. All this weekend i was thinking of scenarios of how to bring our groups archetypes within the main character but then i realised that would  be difficult. So what i came up with is to have a good story line where the characters show their archetypes through out the video instead of having one transforming from innocent to wanderer and then a warrior although i think the second idea would be cool. I couple of movies came to mind but i stuck with was alice in wonderland as i find her to have all of the three archetypes we need and i used that as a research subject over the weekend. she's definetly a wanderer yet inncocent but when the hero's call comes she becomes a warrior and i think this would be perfect for our movie as a starting point.  as far as logistics go we should be gettin a HD camera today to shoot the movie courtesy of Jose lost boys so things should be in motion by tomorrow hopefully. A far as the song goes we still undecided a couple things came to mind (hey you P.F) (resistance, Muse) and some others. In progress will keep u posted.

Macbeth 3.2 Shakespeare Animated Tales - Macbeth - Part 3

Lady Macbeth’s influence on her husband is paralleled by the three witches. The words of the three “weird sisters” are reflected in Macbeth’s words; in fact, the influence the witches have on Macbeth is so powerful, the audience is exposed to it even before the two meet: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen". In these lines Macbeth almost word for word repeats the witches’ lines in the first scene of the play: “Fair is foul and foul is fair. Once again, the words which puts into the mouth of Macbeth are not the protagonist’s, but rather the words are often echoed from those characters who influence him most.

Blog 3.1-3.2 Macbeth

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare there are a few symbols which i came across that can be applied to the picture above. Blood is used a lot in this play from the beginning the bleeding captain to his bleeding head in the end but I think the imagined blood has the biggest impact as a symbol.

For example when he considers murdering Duncan he sees a floating dagger that points him in the direction of the king’s bedroom, and while this happens the dagger becomes covered in blood in his imagination which connects with the bloody hands in this picture which also represents reality if he were to use the dagger. This comes to symbolize guilt for Macbeth just like the hand show in this picture and even after he starts believing that there is nothing that could wash away his guilt not even The Great Neptune Ocean as it is said on the play. The water and the blood in the picture connect with the play when Lady Macbeth tells him to go and get some water to wash his filth of the hands.

The idea of the water could be the only way to get their blood of the hands even though lady Macbeth curses the imaginary spot of blood she can’t get of her hands. After he kills Banquo who then returns as a ghost Macbeth announces that blood will beget blood and the image of the blood spilling in the water sums it up as once you killed someone you might as well keep doing it till you've accomplished you goal which he does. You see how the blood is spreading around in the clean, pure water which could represent Macbeth’s good and noble side before the witches and then his wife fill his heads with ideas and bring the worse of him.

Also the ripples created by the blood falling in the water can apply to the storm and the battle that’s being waged between the king’s forces and the rebels.

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Innocence Archetype

When we call others angels we see them as loving, kind, thoughtful, innocent and virtuous. Personally I believe I have most of the qualities to place me in those criteria. I’m always helping other, always happy and joy full and I try to retain my innocence and try not to become cynical and bitter. I tend to respect every living thing as it were me in their position from the biggest to the smallest. My beliefs as a child have always been to give others the benefit of a doubt because no matter how bad they might be there is still good in them. I’ve always been the type that avoids confrontation and tries to make other see sense that violence is not the answer to resolve things and make them believe that life is not as bad as it might look right now cause there is a light at the end of the tunnel if you believe in it and things will get better. I’m not the type that waits for things to come to me I chase my goals and try and achieve to the best of my abilities, Whether it’s to make work a better environment or to help others when in need I’m always there. I’m not a charity were I’m giving stuff which I can’t afford away but what I do give is my help into making others life’s better in any way I can.

On the same note there is a movie called Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey which I love. It’s not that the movie was great it’s the idea behind it that has believing in humanity like I have for all my life which is part of my archetype were if you help others good things will come to you. You might argue that in this movie the boy gets killed but his image and what he stood for lives on. I’d rather die or spend my life along those lines than be scared of it. There is a raw power, a truth that rings clear in Pay It Forward.  It is entertaining, it is superbly acted, and it is the one true film, the one true idea that really could help make a positive and tangible difference in our society and our world. I’m not saying that only an innocent archetype or an angel can make a difference, all types of archetype can do well in their own way like a warrior risking everything to do what they believe is right even though they might be out powered and outmatched. I believe the innocent also have a larger ability to forgive rather than keep the hatred building up and ready to explode. So pay it forward when you can because it will get back to you when it’s your time for someone to pay it forward.

Goblin market - 2.1

Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830.Rossetti was one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti, her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti a painter, and she also had an older sister who was an Anglican nun.Although her fundamentally religious temperament was closer to her mother's, this youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father.

This poem is about two sisters the goblin men and Jeanie. They lived together and were used to getting water from the every evening from the stream were the goblin merchants would offer to sell them all types of fruit. As the poem cities one night Laura waited for her sister to leave and went to buy some fruits having no money with her, instead she offered a lock of her hair and a tear. She eats the fruit and one of the seeds then returns home. Lizzie the wiser sister remind her about what happened to Jeanie another girl who eaten the fruits from the goblins.  Things were different for Laura tonight. Instead of hearing the goblins happy and offering delicious fruits they were crying and chanting and to her horror she realizes that Lizzie can still hear them like she did the day before, welcoming charming and inviting. Unable to buy the fruits she starts showing the same symptoms that Jeanie did after she eaten the fruit. She stopped doing the household works, was depressed and deteriorating. She remembered the seed that she saved and went to plant it but it bared nothing. After some time Lizzie realizes that her sister is in the verge of death. As a good, caring and always cautions Lizzie goes to get some fruits from the goblin with money. At first they greet her like they do with every first times but then they turn malicious when she offers them money for the fruits and to take them home with her.

The goblins try and force her to eat the fruits, they drench in juice so she could get a taste of them. Like a good sister she runs home hoping that Laura can drink some of her juice from her body. She does so and she undergoes a violent transformation but as the story tells she returns to her usual self the next day and they live happily ever after. Wary of the danger they face from the goblin men and their irresistible fruits they have to offer. 

In the first line we have two symbols Morning which means new, fresh, untainted, and Evening which could be interpreted as darkness, mystery, evil or danger.

On the second line we have Maids in this case submissive, inferior, pure, and innocent.
In the third line you hear the goblin calling come buy our orchid fruits, come buy. Here we have fruits which can be associated with forbidden, the birth of evil, nourishing, sweet and orchid which could represent love, luxury, beauty and strength which leads to peoples temptations to have them like Laura when she buys the fruit.

In line sixteen the symbol of summer is shown which could mean bright, full of sun and light, warm, freedom, swimming, greenery just another way to disguise the reality of things to come if you buy fruits from the goblins.

Thirty-three the symbol Brookside is used which is the beginning of life. Water was present before the formation of Heaven & Earth, and water is the birth of life, necessary for survival and formation which could mean that the goblins were trying to interrupt that by plotting to kill the sisters like they did with the other girl.

Sixty-six has the symbol of Evil gifts which could be understood as forbidden pleasures, unwanted pleasures that we know are bad for us but we still want to try out. In this case it was the fruits which the goblins were offering which can be associated with the forbidden tree in Adam and Eve as I explained below.

Line eighty-two has Swan as a symbol which here could mean, Curiosity. Here the author is showing us how curios and tempted Laura was from all the fruits the goblins were offering.

Line eighty-eight Goblins could be symbolized as a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious or deceiving as it shows on the poem.  

Eighty-nine the symbol cry is used which could be mournful, depressing, the loss of water or it can also be a way into trick the others to feel bad about you and buy the fruits or the goblins are offering.

Tear is another symbol used and can be related to something of value a pearl. It’s like she’s selling her body for the forbidden fruits (one hundred twenty-seven).

The archetypes in the Goblin Market are Laura, Lizzie, the children and goblin men. Laura can be identified as the one who's easy to deceive one who trades her body for her desires like mentioned above this could have something to do with the writer working in whore house and also with eve and the forbidden fruits. Lizzie is the one who's always on the lookout and wary of the situation and also insisting toward her sister to not get fooled by the goblins. She could be associated with Jesus like being the savior or the man of the house since she was the responsible one and had no parents to look out for them but she was also kind and forgiving and had a lot of love for her sister to the extent were she was risking her own life to save another. The goblins can be associated with many things like the snake at the forbidden tree or the devil trying to control the weak people mind by offering them health and prosperity for their souls like when they did not take money but wanted something more personal like hair or parts of their soul etc. In the ends good prevails through the birth of their kids and wary of the risks of the goblin they tell their kids their stories. Family is such a strong bond that most of us would anything to save each other and that’s my understanding here so far. Jesus sacrificed himself to save us and we would have no boundaries to what we do when a family member is in peril.

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/rossettibio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

http://dictionary.reference.com/

 

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Pink Floyd Echoes

Pink Floyd Echoes

For me this is the greatest songs of all time from the Master of space rock. It's like telling a story that no one can comprehend, but at the same time telling a strange tale of human contact through the mind and soul. Pink Floyd are an English rock band who formed in the in the 1960 and achieved international success in for their psychedelic rock and later on went on to progressive rock.  They sold over 200 million albums worldwide including 74.5 million in the US which made them one of the best selling artists of all time. Initially there was five members in the band but as time progressed what became the real pink Floyd, the out of this world music that all pink Floyd fans  love was made by David Gilmour(lead guitar, vocalist, writer), Richard Wright(accord, vocalist, writer) and Nick Mason(drummer).   

In the first verse of this song I think they are trying to explain how life before it evolved had nothing to leave but echoes in their fight to survive.

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
and deep beneath the rolling waves
in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine.

In this verse they sound like they describe something where people or the world they lived upon was totally free and there is no oppression by others. You are woken only by the rising sun and are not bound to anyone or anything. No one lies or tries to deceive you, or hide anything from you. And the fact that this song is called Echoes tells me that this land does not actually exist anymore, i.e. there remain only echoes of it.
And no-one called us to the land
And no-one knows the where’s or whys
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

The third verse in this song is difficult to interpret, unless taken literally, in which case the song is just describing a scene, with catchy and smooth lyrics. The "Strangers passing in the Street by chance...." line probably sums up what most of this song is about. It’s about understanding humanity with empathy, not antipathy (Roger Walters). In this sense, I can further expand and argue that the rest of this song, including the first verse, has to do with appreciating the very simple things in life which we so often forget to even acknowledge how they enrich our lives. Whether such thing can be an ocean and coral caves, or simply appreciating and acknowledging the fact that other people in this world are alive and imagining ourselves in their shoes, taking the time to even think about it makes Echoes an amazing song.

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can

And no-one calls us to move on
And no-one forces down our eyes
And no-one speaks and no-one tries
And no-one flies around the sun

On the final two verses I believe it’s a sign of how every day God calls us to rise through the sun light and no one is there to help us in our struggles. The end I believe is really   thoughtful too in a sense where there is always help when praying to god and giving up is not the answer but trying to make it in life even though when we are in our darkest moments there is still good in us that wants to come out and reach to others to help them stand up to sing them lullabies and make them believe that life is not worthless but is a precious gift given to us. Personally this song got me through a lot when I needed a place to escape from all the troubles we face but then again there was others inviting and inciting me to rise, like family, friends and more importantly having the will and believing in god that there will be better days ahead were cloudless skies and sunlight comes falling upon my waking eyes.

Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes
inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no-one sings me lullabies
And no-one makes me close my eyes
And so I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky

Watch the video and you’ll know what I’m talking about….

Sources used

http://classicrock.about.com/od/bandsandartists/p/pink_floyd.htm

http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/echoes-meddle-lyrics.html

http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/Pink-Floyd/Echoes

Pink Floyd 2001: A Floyd Odyssey Full Ending Scene

The heroe inside

Personally i'm a big fan of supernatural theme movies books and othe interesting ideas towards a world with no boundaries. the latest series which i've followed for 5 years now has been Heroes. The story line here is that some individuals have been given special powers and are out in the world livng their daily lifes but some of them have other plans and schemes into creating chaos and achieve gains for their own interests. There is two sides to these series people that want to do good and whats right by god and people that want to abuse their power and achieve their goals no matter what. i mean we see this in everyday life or as history has shown most of us can never be pleased with what we have it's in our nature to want what the others have. In these series sylar is doing exactly that. He's killing all the other special people to take their powers and in the other hand peter the good character is learning about his powers and responsibilites that come with it. We all turn dark ot some point as movies(star wars,spiderman 3, lord of the rings etc) books and many other refences in our history show in the end good prevails and the heroe within us comes out does whats right by them and others. In the series peter loses his powers and he's not able to fight a fair battle but he still countinues cause he belives in himself he belives on the hereo inside him even though he's powerless. Sometime as humans we achieve incredable leaps and know that in an ideal world that wouldnt happen nine out of ten times but just in that moment right then you feel untouchable you feel like a heroe, that you can do anything that nothing is off limits. I belive this to be true in every sense no matter what your proffession is, its what you do with it that matters. Can you change peoples lives by offerening them knowledge a helping hand when in need can you make a stranger in the street feel that they not alone and even though times have changed there is still good in this world. Thats what the show is all about in my opinion and if you havent seen it start with season one its really good.

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